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TORONTO — “It isn’t a safe area, it is not a triggerless location, but it simply is not,” explained Louis C.K., describing — at no little understatement — his darkly humorous and squirm-inducing new film, “I Love You, Daddy,” which surfaced to warm applause and a few revulsion in the Toronto International Film Festival on the weekend.

Filmed softly in New York in June, the film tells of a powerful, emotionally missing tv writer, played with Louis C.K., who’s coping — except he is not coping — together with the charm of his own 17-year-old daughter with the esteemed filmmaker, also rumored pedophile, who’s just four times her age.

“You will find these folks on the planet which most of us discuss, and we wish to understand they’re great or they are all awful,” Louis C.K. stated during a meeting Sunday morning in a cafe in downtown Toronto. “The embarrassing reality isthat you never truly understand. You do not know anyone. For me, if there was something this film is all about, it is you don’t know anyone{}”

It is an observation which raises the issue of just how do crowds understand Louis C.K., a guy who has built his own career from {}, albeit wholeheartedly, exploration collective distress and taboos.

Unsubstantiated net rumors of sexual misconduct with female comics gained steam once the comedian Tig Notaro advised The Daily Beast he must “manage” the rumors. “I Love You, Daddy” supports similar rumormongeringnevertheless, such as the auteur from the movie, Louis C.K. initially dodged when asked about these.

“I am not going to reply to this stuff, since they’re rumors,” Louis C.K. stated throughout the Toronto interview, even since he informed Vulture this past calendar year. However he added Sunday, “If you really take part at a rumor, then you make it larger and you also make it true.”

So it isn’t real? “No.” He reacted. “They are rumors, that is all that’s.”

And exactly what exactly did he make of these remarks from Ms. Notaro, whose job he’s championed? (Louis C.K. is the executive producer of her Amazon show, “One Mississippi,” although she’s stated they have not spoken in over a year; a fresh installment of her show comes with a plot using echoes of those rumors concerning Louis C.K.) “I really don’t understand why she said what she has said, I truly don’t,” he responded, adding, “I do not think referring to that stuff at the media and having discussions over media lanes would be a fantastic idea.”

As he talked concerning “that things,” Louis C.K., who turns 50 on Tuesday, didn’t come off as defensive, however, he did talk forcefully. He conceded that creating a film that toys having did-he-or-didn’t-he questions can hit some as a modest flagrant.

“I created a picture that completely walks over that electrical weapon,” he stated, “and that is bizarre.”

There is the catchy, icky, fundamental questions, such as if the association between the girl (played by Chloë Grace Moretz) and also the near-septuagenarian filmmaker (John Malkovich) is much more suitable given that she’s only months shy of her 18th birthday. The movie’s other provocations incorporate a few slurs plus a goof-off comic (Charlie Day) miming onanism, double, in front of different men and women.

“I do not weigh these items and move, ‘I trust everyone’s O.K. for this,”’ he explained. “I think that it’s boring to do so, and that I do not think that it’s needed. I really don’t feel that everyone must come to some consensus that it is O.K. for everyone.”

For potential vendors in Toronto, the provocative components appear to have added to the movie’s allure. On Monday the supply firm The Orchard purchased the movie for about $ 5 million, based on Louis C.K.’s publicist, Lewis Kay. (The comic self-financed the film, that was in postproduction upwards before the premiere.) While he’s made other job, such as his own surprise self-distributed collection “Horace along with Pete,” available for sale on his web page, Louis C.K. has stated he wishes to watch “I Love You, Daddy” at theatres.

Founded in 35 millimeter in white and black, and accompanied with a sweeping score, and this film is intensely evocative of “Manhattan,” which makes it feel just like a Woody Allen film about Woody Allen. (Louis C.K. stated other real-life characters, one of them Roman Polanski, fed to the Allen-esque personality, also.) He wrote “I Love You, Daddy” using Vernon Chatman, also started working on it 2 decades back, end up on this particular story line from the many he had been contemplating. The narrative folds at the agonizing which goes in to parenting, a motif that’s been an online line in the comic work (in fact in addition to in string such as “Louie” on FX). He said he watched “I Love You, Daddy” as a dreadful story.

“It is about a man who discovered too late that he did not perform his job for a father, and he could not use the info he discovered, and the woman had no option except to increase himself,” he explained. He added after viewing the movie on the big screenthat he believed that it was “just sort of a sweet film about the joys of youth and parenthood.”

Allowing him to talk a bit afterwards, a few of the movie’s co-stars — Pamela Adlon, Mr. Day, Edie Falco and Ebonee Noel, whose teenaged character asserts at the same stage, “Everyone’s a pervert” — stated it had been Louis C.K.’s fearlessness they appeared most about his job.

“He is never scared to do some thing smug,” Ms. Adlon stated, ” and Ms. Falco agreed. “I’m so in awe of this bravery, ” Ms. Falco stated, “Since it is not that I’m”

And that openness to perform it dangerous, Mr. Day explained, was that which place Louis C.K. apart.

“There is always just a tiny bit of blood from the water together with what he creates,” he explained. “And it is tough to discover that at Hollywood, because everybody wishes to tread gently. In a society that is becoming a lot more saccharine, it is more difficult to find anyone ready to fly near the sun{}”